All the panels from the Silicon Valley DevOps Days are now online. A huge round of applause for InfoQ for putting this entire event online and making it available to the world.

If you want a glimpse into the next 10 years of system administration as a career path, you need to get up to speed now so it doesn't take you by surprise in the coming years.

President Obama gave the Oval Office a little makeover while he was relaxing on vacation recently. It’s a tad brown for my taste, but what the hell do I know about high-powered White House fashion in these modern times of wealth for all. I think it looks quite nice. Certainly much better than the last [...]

Due to some misunderstanding, a solaris.xpm have been removed too early from illumos source tree. It results in problems while trying to boot your new illumos boot environment, if you have updated with onu.sh script.
If you happen to have this problem, what you need is modify your grub menu. Mine looks like this.

title os-devel_145
findroot (pool_rpool,0,a)
bootfs rpool/ROOT/os-devel_145

I ride the trains in Tokyo all the time, and I rarely see such rude behavior as sleeping full length on the seats. Well, sometimes on Friday nights things get messy when people get drop dead drunk, but I have only seen this bed behavior one other time. This particular train below is actually full, [...]

There are billions of potential customers living at the bottom of the economic pyramid. Four to five billion of them, actually. And that market in aggregate is almost as valuable economically as the developed world. But building products and services to engage the billions at the bottom requires a vastly different engineering model than serving [...]

Last Solidarność meeting has proven what I have thought for last few years. This thing shouldhave been disbanded years ago, before it f*ked up economy, got holy cow status and turned out to be a bunch of gruwn up kids that would most likely just go out on the street and trew together a crash-party. Also Jarosław Kaczyński just proved again that history is just a dream and his words are Illumination.

When men father children and then split their brains don’t change one bit. They are also pretty despicable human beings but that’s obvious. However, when they stick around and help raise the kids, fathers go through a period of neurognesis. Basically, they grow new brain cells and make new neurological connections specifically designed to connect [...]

As far as we know, Oracle has stopped developing OpenSolaris in the open. For those of us, who would rather have Opensolaris become a real openly developed operating system, ptoject illumos came to life. Thanks to Garrett d'Amore et consortes. On the illumos wiki page there is a nice instruction on compiling your own post build 134 illumos source.
Already much work has been put in the source tree to liberate it from dependency on /extra repository and new putbacks arrive all the time.

Randy Pausch, you may recall, became infamous because of his dying "Last Lecture". Just tonight I happened to come across a talk he did on Time Management, "because time is all we have." As he particularly pointed out, "you may have less of it than you think." Time management tips from a dying man, who better to speak on the subject?

Whats shocking to me is that the talk is not philosophical, rather its 1 hour 16 minutes of non-stop practical pointers, ideas and applications.

Nearby fire threatening houses and power lines. Took only 15min to burn the whole area. It’s been 40 days since the last time we had rain in Campinas. Air humidity is at 13-20% and temperatures are ranging between 12C and 30C. That max is quite unusual for this time of the year (Winter). It’s hard [...]

Sorry for the late notice, but SVOSUG is meeting tonight. Myself and several folks from the Joyent crew will be onhand.

6:45pm
274 Castro Street, Suite 204
Mountain View
above Meyer Appliance & Kitchens look for the OpenSolaris sign on the door 

Tonights guest will be Garrett D'Amore presenting Illumos and Anil Gulecha presenting Nexenta.

The discussion will really be in essence about the rebirth of OpenSolaris in a post-Oracle era.

If you’ve never been to Japan you may be surprised at how often foreigners are called foreigners. Pretty much all the time. I came here from San Francisco and this whole “foreigners” bit was jarring for a while. Why would anyone care? Also, I just hadn’t heard the phrase in the U.S. among the people [...]

Well this should shock no one — The poor give more than the rich. Even though the rich obviously have much more give, as a percentage of their wealth and income, they don’t. The reason seems clear: the poor lack resources and, thus, can empathize with those who also lack resources. The rich don’t. Now, [...]

It is sad news, the OpenSolaris Governing Board resigned today collectively with the following resolution:

Motion concerning dissolution of the OGB

Whereas Oracle has continued to ignore requests to appoint a liaison to work with the OGB concerning the future of OpenSolaris development and our community, and

Whereas Oracle distributed an email to its employees on Aug 13 2010 that set forth Oracle’s decision to unilaterally terminate the development partnership between Oracle and the OpenSolaris Community, and

This morning at 8:19AM Pacific, the OGB passed:

I just tripped over Japan Podcast: Culture and Daily Life in Japan by two of my very good friends, Terri and Karamoon (both of whom are active community organizers at Tokyo Hackerspace and both of whom I met at various BarCamp conferences). Japan Podcast is a curious look at daily life in Japan for non-Japanese. [...]

Is there such a thing as outgrowing growth? Economically speaking, of course. In other words, do countries (or companies or anything else, really) have to grow to be healthy? The first I heard the term “outgrowing growth” was in this New York Times article: Japan and the Ancient Art of Shrugging, where Norihiro Kato argues [...]

Went to see some young taiko (太鼓) drummers tonight … Filed under: Japan Tagged: drums, Japan, taiko, 太鼓

Here are 29 images from the Tokyo Linux User Group nomikai at the Mitsukoshi Rooftop Beer Garden last night. This was my first “beer garden” in Tokyo. About 20 people came by for TLUG, but there were probably over a thousand people up there on the roof for various events. Good food. Good beer. Really [...]

Here are 13 shots from around Tokyo tonight … Filed under: Photography Tagged: Japan, Photography, tokyo

As mentioned by Garrett D'Amore yesterday, the "tap" has indeed been turned off; code pushes are no longer being made to the ONNV repository. For the first time in four years, I was greeted with the following:

[stallion@titan]:/export/onnv-clone> hg pull
pulling from ssh://anon@hg.opensolaris.org/hg/onnv/onnv-gate
searching for changes

I watched Red Cliff over the weekend. It’s long. It takes a weekend. Really excellent movie, though, with many basic and timeless lessons on strategy: thinking, leading, planning, fighting, innovating, and disrupting. The film also shows quite elegantly how power and arrogance blinds leaders and results in piles of people needlessly getting killed. And although [...]

This is going to be short. All of you out there, who have been questioning Sun's commitment to opensource (you know who you are, your words have been relayed to the world by most popular news sites), I hope you know the difference now. Thanks for the faith you had. Regards.

A lot has been said about Oracle and OpenSolaris since the Sun acquisition has been concluded. I’ll try to offer my view on the recent events more as an effort to consolidate my perception of what happened to OpenSolaris than to document history in any form. As always, keep in mind that I’m a sysadmin [...]

Here are some images from the Tokyo Linux User Group meeting on Saturday. Many more images from previous meetings over the years here as well. Filed under: Linux Tagged: foss, Linux, opensource, tlug, tokyo

Solaris Engineering,
Today we are announcing a set of decisions regarding the path to
Solaris 11, and answering key pending questions on open source, open
development, software and binary licenses, and how developers and
early adopters will be able to use Solaris 11 technology before its
release in 2011.

As you all know, the term “OpenSolaris” has been used colloquially to
refer to any or all of a collection of source code, a development
model, a web site, a logo, a binary release, a source license, a

This is a real thing. This is not hype or idle rambling. OpenSolaris is, as of Friday the 13th of August, 2010, dead. Read the full skinny in the leaked internal email to Solaris Engineering.

What follows is an email sent internally to Oracle Solaris Engineers which describes Oracle's true intentions toward the OpenSolaris project and the future of Oracle Solaris.

This concludes over four years that I (and many other external contributors) have worked on the OpenSolaris project. This is a terrible sendoff for countless hours of work - for quality software which will now ship as an Oracle product that we (the original authors) can no longer obtain on an unrestricted basis.

John Fowler delvers an Oracle Systems Strategy Update webcast. Better late than never.

There weren't any surprises. The key take-aways I think are: